I agree with Peter. Stanza on the iPhone is a revelation compared to
the Kindle which has so many disadvantages even if we had wireless
connectivity for it here.
The Kindle is huge, angular, the screen is black and white only and
isn't backlit(!), and the device is really single purpose (the beta
web browser is a joke) and it doesn't easily run other software, and
it is expensive.
I far prefer to have my library of books sitting on my iPhone
instantly accessible wherever I am because I always have my iPhone
with me. The iPhone has the same 160 dpi resolution as the Kindle so
the text is just as clear. The screen is smaller on the iPhone but I
don't find that to be a problem at all and being able to do so much
more with it - phone, iPod, web, email, apps etc makes it a far better
choice.
The free Stanza software for the iphone has a large online library of
free ebooks and it can play back or convert most other ebook formats.
I buy all my scfi ebooks from baen.com for about $6 each and they
don't have annoying DRM and display nicely in Stanza.
Hopefully "The Steve" will finally drop the other shoe and admit that
there are many who do still read books and add textual ebooks to the
iTunes store sometime in the future to make the whole system even more
streamlined.
-Mart
Sent from my iPhone
On 14/10/2008, at 8:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 13/10/2008, at 6:25 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:
I didn't check that Neil, our Son sent it from LA, if it's not
available now
will only be a matter of time like the I Phone I guess,
Ken
Alternatively there's Stanza (http://www.lexcycle.com), which is
available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and can read Kindle
documents.
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